[Homestead] Sericea Lespedeza

Robert Walton waltonrp at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 19:12:35 EDT 2009


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> Ah, a sore subject.

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Oh, yes. Forgot to tell you. One year I decided that putting a wide ring of
Vicks around my young fruit trees would keep the web worms from climbing up
the trunk and eating all the leaves.

I was gloating in my organic pest control knowledge that early summer. About
mid-summer, I noticed that a little plum tree just turned brown overnight.
Upon further investigation, I found that the Vicks ate the bark off and
killed the tree.

I lost about 5 fruit trees to that Vicks treatment even though I washed it
off the other ones right away.

Rob - Va



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